perspective, density, and content - andI'd been to both types lots of times and

even making it more odd was the fact

that many times (as in the case of, say,

Larry Rivers) the artist was also the

jazz man with much less of that happening the other way aroundbut, whatever. The overlap is what

made for the interesting groups

of intermingling people : late night

jam sessions, dense and thick with

smoke and booze, sex and fury, and the jazz loft was used by choice morethan the art oft for these sorts ofgroup and music encounter. Groupsof men with their horns and equipmentheld long extended and wild jam sessions,

people coming and going. A car or taxi

would bring someone, or just a lot of

these people walked, now far I never

much knew, nor where they'd been or

where they were going, they'd shuffle

in, as hot or hip and on fire as they'd

choose (a lot of it was pure styling, to the point of self-conscious put-on, I'd

thought then, and still do), no organized

sitting in any way, haphazard, and rotating

session men in and out of the group - which eventually wound up playing forhours and hours with shifting alliances and

personnel - and as hard to explain as it was,

it worked. I never exactly had it figured,

not that it mattered, whether or how much

of what they were playing these guys actually 'knew' about beforehand or ifthey were just winging or hamming through.Sometimes it as difficult to really tell.

See, the thing I noticed about jazz, or that

kind of jazz anyway, (by the 70's there'd

be other colorations, mellow-jazz, cool-jazz,

table-top jazz, card-jazz, and even stuff

they'd call jazz when they shouldn't have.

But that was later, and with a whole

other raft of people).

-

The thing about jazz, this jazz, coffee jazz, or whisky jazz, I called it, be-bop, whatever, it was a solo language, What good is a

About Me

You can surmise all that I am from what it is you read about me herein - experiences and outlooks philosophies and viewpoints too. "For God's sake ! will SOMEONE please read this stuff - it's very important."